NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2011

Critics say Dalton McGuinty, Ontario's self-proclaimed "education premier," should be willing to take a stand on handing out Bibles to students in public schools.

Five people, including two children, have a global positioning device to thank after they were rescued from a lifeboat off the coast of Tofino, B.C.

New figures indicate the federal government hopes to reduce overall immigration next year by five per cent, mainly by cutting back on family reunification visas.

The bedbugs are back. About 85 athletes and coaches competing at the Canada Winter Games in Nova Scotia have been moved from a Tim Hortons children's camp in Tatamagouche because of a reappearance of the pesky pests.

Canada's Christine Nesbitt finished second to Ireen Wust of the Netherlands at the world all-around speedskating championship Sunday at the Olympic Oval in Calgary.

Avalanches are causing headaches for B.C. drivers, with several highways in the province closed on Sunday.

Officials issued an avalanche warning for Banff, Yoho and Kootenay National Parks after two skiers were partially buried by an avalanche Saturday.

It's been a weekend of wild weather in southern Alberta, with strong winds of up to 140 km per hour reported in some areas and wreaking havoc on drivers.

Canada's air force is launching a push this month to find more flight engineers for search-and-rescue helicopters as it struggles to fill those ranks decimated by retirements and recruitment of highly trained staff by private firms.

While celebrations are underway to mark the first anniversary of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, an Ottawa researcher says the event had a negative effect on the city's homeless youth.

TORONTO - Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says Canada welcomed a record-high number of immigrant newcomers last year. Kenney released a report today that indicates in 2010, Canada admitted 280,636 new permanent residents.

Two University of Connecticut business school graduates have received support from the state's venture capital fund to begin an online social network.

Opponents of industrial wind farms are declaring a victory this week after the Ontario government imposed a moratorium on off-shore wind projects.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been locked in a lengthy tug of war with his defence minister over the future of the military's VIP Airbus, newly disclosed documents show.

NORTH VANCOUVER - North Vancouver police are warning tourists about a prankster who calls people staying in local hotels.

Canada's Marianne St-Gelais captured gold in a short-track speed skating World Cup event Sunday in Moscow, winning the women's 500-metre race.

Cindy Klassen is the last Canadian to win the World All-Around Speedskating Championship, but that may very well change this weekend.

You have a day to go before Valentine's Day and haven't done a thing yet. Chances are you're thinking you can recover -- chocolate, flowers, card, maybe dinner, done deal. A projected $16 billion in spending on Valentine's Day gifts this year can't be

Betty Garrett, the vivacious Broadway star who played Frank Sinatra's sweetheart in two MGM musicals before her career was hampered by the Hollywood blacklist, has died in Los Angeles, her son said Sunday. She was 91.

For many Canadians, Ikea is virtually synonymous with affordable, assemble-yourself furniture. But can the ambitious expansion plans of a virtually unknown Scandinavian rival change that perception?

Egypt's military rulers dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution on Sunday, meeting two key demands from pro-democracy protesters as they maintained a presence in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

The Catholic Church has approved an iPhone app that helps guide worshippers through confession.

Mikael Samuelsson scored two goals just 2:40 apart in the second period, Alex Burrows added his second into an empty net and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Calgary Flames 4-2 on Saturday night

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A graffiti artist armed with five knives went on a bloody 28-hour rampage across New York City, fatally stabbing his stepfather, ex-girlfriend and her mother, running down a pedestrian with a stolen Lexus and knifing a subway passenger be

CBC News has obtained recordings of the last minutes of Cougar Flight 491, with the tape detailing a dramatic exchange with air traffic controllers before the chopper crashed east of St. John's in 2009 killing 17 people.

The Maritime Junior Hockey League has handed out 22 game suspensions to the Summerside Western Capitals and Miramichi Timberwolves following a brawl that started before the puck was dropped.

Players from as far away as California, England, Denmark and Singapore are in Plaster Rock, N.B., this weekend for the World Pond Hockey Championship.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is blasting what it calls "misinformation" and "fearmongering" about its decision to allow Bruce Power to transport 16 decommissioned nuclear steam boilers through the Great Lakes to Sweden for recycling.

A Winnipeg teen who took part in a horrific race-related beating that left a young man severely disabled will be sentenced as an adult and could face 14 years in prison, a Manitoba judge has ruled.

Hundreds of medals, badges and bayonets have been stolen in the last year from the Military Museums in Calgary.

A herd of hungry, marauding elk have damaged a farmer's crops in Naramata.

Up to a third of Eastern Pacific grey whale calves born each year are eaten by orcas that prowl the tip of the Alaskan Peninsula.

US marine archaeologists have found the sunken whaling ship belonging to the captain who inspired Herman Melville's classic 19th Century novel, Moby Dick.

MOSCOW - Does the sun revolve around the Earth? One in every three Russians thinks so, a spokeswoman for state pollster VsTIOM said on Friday.

Egypt's military took preliminary steps to return the nation to order after taking power following President Hosni Mubarak's ouster, promising to uphold international agreements and retain power until a civilian government is elected.

Facing a court challenge, a growing backlash and an election, Ontario's Liberal government imposed a surprise moratorium Friday on all off-shore wind farms until there is more scientific research on their impact.

A magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck central Chile Friday, centred in almost exactly the same spot where last year's magnitude-8.8 quake spawned a tsunami and devastated coastal communities.

Taliban insurgents armed with bombs, automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked the Kandahar police headquarters Saturday during a bloody assault on the southern Afghan city that killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens more.

Friday's cancellation of the 17th Winter Deaflympics in Slovakia left Kimberley Rizzi with both a sick stomach and the task of getting her team home from Europe.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - They met on a military training course. She was a student. He was the instructor. Sparks didn't exactly fly the first time they met.

A free-for-all debate among the six Liberal leadership candidates vying to become British Columbia's next premier saw some hot exchanges over health care, dirty tricks and a controversial $6-million legal fee payout for two former government aides.

UFC 129 in Toronto is officially a record sellout at 55,000 tickets and a gate in excess of $10 million.

Bangladesh took four wickets in two overs on its way to a nine-wicket victory over Canada in a cricket World Cup warmup match on Saturday.

The B.C. Liberal Party has adopted a new voting system that gives all ridings an equal say in choosing a new leader and a new premier.

Canadians Francois Hamelin and Michael Gilday won medals Saturday at a short track speedskating World Cup event in Moscow.

Egyptians from the Ottawa area gathered on Parliament Hill on Saturday to celebrate the end of Hosni Mubarak's regime.

Alex Gough is the first Canadian to ever win gold at a luge World Cup, ending Germany's 105-race winning streak in women's races in the process.

VANCOUVER - The Olympics put BC's Aboriginals in the spotlight. The former CEO of the Four Host First Nations considers the Games a turning point.

The first day of the Canada Winter Games is off to a roaring start with five records broken at the long-track speed skating oval.

Hundreds of Algerian protesters were reportedly arrested on Saturday, as demonstrations demanding democratic reforms were held in spite of a government ban.

The heads of 36 tribes in Jordan have publicly accused Queen Rania of corruption and have called on King Abdullah II to remove her completely from the country's politics.

Fast-rising Canadian Milos Raonic advanced to his first career ATP Tour semifinal by knocking off Richard Berankis and second-seeded Gael Monfils beat wild card Tim Smyczek 6-4, 7-6 (6) Friday in the quarter-finals at the SAP Open.

John Axford is OK with his baseball journey, and the fact it took him about 20 years to find his comfort zone and live his childhood dream.

Defenceman Sami Salo is set to make his NHL season debut just in time, as the Vancouver Canucks deal with a battered blue-line ahead of their date with the Calgary Flames on Saturday.

After months of waiting, Olympic and world ice dance champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir will finally make their season debut at next week's Four Continents event in Taipei City, Taiwan.

VANCOUVER - Even though Canada didn't get the most medals at the 2010 Games, we still managed to clinch an Olympic record with 14 gold medals.

VANCOUVER - We were promised the Olympic legacy would pay off in tourism dollars. One year later, that promise is good.

Thousands of police in riot gear were in position in the centre of the Algerian capital to stop a planned pro-democracy demonstration that could mimic the uprising which forced out Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Officials have banned Saturday's oppo

It's happened. Former Microsoft exec and current Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has married his future and his past in the holy matrimony of a "strategic alliance." Windows Phone is becoming Nokia's "principal smartphone strategy,"

Canadians in low-income areas on the east and west coasts are up to three times more likely to suffer from chronic illnesses and mental health problems than less affluent people in other regions, a new study suggests.

An online campaign to gather photos of Chinese kids begging on the streets is pressuring authorities to crack down on gangs that kidnap children for exploitation and is helping reunite them with families.

Lucy's feet were made for walking. That's the word from a team of researchers who got a first look at a foot bone from this human relative who lived 3 million or more years ago, and concluded this ancestor was fully comfortable with life on the ground,

Murky freshwater runoff from Australia's worst flooding in decades is adding to stresses from pollution and warming seas on the Great Barrier Reef, one of the world's most fragile ecosystems.

Canadian exporters had the best month in 30 years in December, in the most concrete indicator that the pick-up in demand in the United States is lifting a lot of boats north of the border as well.

A Quebec Conservative MP wants to take away the right to vote from electors who refuse to uncover their faces.

When hundreds of young athletes file into the Halifax Metro Centre to officially open the Canada Winter Games, they will be ready to show the country what they've got.

Elizabeth Taylor has been hospitalized for treatment of congestive heart failure.

A man who was declared dead about 17 years ago has pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping and killing a 12-year-old girl whose body was found in October in Louisiana.

The federal government has launched a formal challenge to Europe's ban on Canadian seal products.

Egyptian-Canadians were separated from events in their birthplace by thousands of kilometres, but they celebrated the ousting of president Hosni Mubarak along with the protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

he streets of Cairo and across Egypt erupted into celebration a few minutes after 6 p.m. local time (11 a.m. ET) Friday as Hosni Mubarak stepped down as President of Egypt.

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is lashing out at the judicial system, accusing judges and lawyers of undermining Canada's immigration process by indulging spurious refugee cases.

Don Matthews, who amassed 231 career victories and 10 Grey Cup victories as a CFL coach, headlines the list of 2011 inductees into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.

With the one-year anniversary of the opening of the Vancouver Olympics arriving on Feb. 12, Canadians are remembering the triumphs of the 2010 Games, where the country won a record 14 gold medals, including a dramatic men's hockey title.

Two B.C. Hells Angels already serving lengthy jail terms on drug-trafficking convictions have been ordered to face a new trial on gangsterism charges.

Prices for condos at Vancouver's former Olympic Village are set to be slashed by 30 per cent, according to a receiver's report, but the city's taxpayers still stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars.

A Chinese man who entered Canada disguised in a mask as an old Caucasian man was ordered released after more than three months of being detained.

Pond hockey NHL style is coming to Calgary in just over a week and preps are underway to transform the turf at McMahon into an ice surface fit for the Flames.

The world's longest hockey game is set to return Friday. And this year, players promise to beat their record of 241 consecutive hours and hope to raise $1 million in the process.

An Ottawa radio station has banned country superstar Carrie Underwood's music from its airwaves in protest of Mike Fisher's trade to the Nashville Predators.

Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent says Ottawa and the provinces will have to adopt tough new regulations to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but insisted that no new legislation is needed to carry out the Conservative government's environmental plan

Another person is claiming to have been sexually abused by Eric Dejaeger, a Catholic priest who is accused of crimes against children in Canada's Arctic in the late-1970s and 1980s.

Gov. Gen. David Johnston is on his way to Dawson City, Yukon, on Thursday, continuing an official tour of the territory that has included a tour of Yukon College and meetings with First Nation leaders and politicians

A tiny Pacific hummingbird, who was frequenting a feeder in eastern Newfoundland since August, has disappeared. The tough litttle Anna's hummingbird was named Bruce by sisters who have been feeding it in Brownsdale, Trinity Bay.

A fourth berth in the Bay of Fundy has been awarded to a U.K.-based company to test a tidal turbine, the government of Nova Scotia announced on Thursday.

Charlottetown police seized 200 illegal knives Wednesday and warned members of the public they may be unknowingly carrying banned weapons.

The sale of the old Coast Guard property in Saint John has put the future of the site's landmark lighthouse in doubt.

The World Sikh Organization of Canada is disappointed with the Quebec national assembly's decision to ban Sikhs from wearing a kirpan in the legislature.

Amherstburg town council has reversed its decision to allow a man convicted of sex crimes involving teenage boys to purchase naming rights at the town's new arena.

Microsoft has said the latest version of its internet explorer web browser puts it ahead of competitors like Google and Firefox.

Six people, including a relative of the Irish president, have been killed and six others injured after a plane from Belfast crashed in fog at Cork Airport.

The commander of Canada Command recently recognized the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) in Victoria, B.C. for its dogged perseverance and persistent professionalism in its dealings with neighbouring search and rescue regions to ensure two Canadian

The famous fossil, Lucy, a human ancestor who lived 3.2 million years ago, was more comfortable on the ground than in the the trees, a foot bone from her kin reveals.

Living in a low-income neighbourhood on either the Atlantic or Pacific coast of Canada makes you more likely to suffer poor health compared to those in less affluent neighbourhoods in other parts of the country, say researchers at Toronto's St. Michael's

With the U.S.-Canada border under sudden intense scrutiny in the United States, a handful of American senators placed it under an ever-harsher spotlight Thursday by asking for the military's help in patrolling the boundary.

The federal RCMP watchdog says the national police force is addressing all 16 recommendations on Taser use that flowed from the Robert Dziekanski case.

Families of fallen Canadian soldiers were in Afghanistan on Thursday for a ceremony at Kandahar Airfield to pay their respects to their loved ones.

OTTAWA - Canada and Britain have been holding quiet but lengthy discussions to develop replacement frigates for both of their navies. The shipbuilding program is being proposed by British defence giant BAE Systems Inc., but has also been pitched to other

A man convicted of killing two women in the Fraser Valley has been sentenced to life in prison, with no chance of parole for 23 years

A bank identified by U.S. authorities as having ties to Hezbollah and a global drug trafficking and money laundering network has a Canadian connection

The attacks successfully obtained information about oil and gas field operations, including the configuration of equipment, and financial documents relating to bids for oil and gas concessions and drilling rights.

Winnipeg recorded a 1.1 per cent increase in the price of new homes while Halifax's new home price went up 0.3 per cent. Toronto and Oshawa saw a 0.2 per cent increase between November and December.

The Liberals want Speaker Peter Milliken to decide whether Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet can withhold background studies on legislation.

Moncton is poised to beat a record for the amount of snow on the ground in February. Linda Libby, a meteorologist for Environment Canada, said the current record is 119 centimetres on the ground in February 1992.

The sentencing hearing began Wednesday for a Tracyville, N.B., man who pleaded guilty Tuesday to 11 child sex-related charges.

The Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior II, has arrived in Hong Kong on its farewell tour to Asia.

The threat of terrorism against the US homeland is in some aspects "at its most heightened state" since the 9/11 attacks, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said.